Chester Barnard

"Executive processes are specialized functions in what we know as organizations. If these functions are to be adequately described, the description must be in terms of the nature of the organization it…"

"It is important at this point to make clear that every coöperative purpose has in the view of each coöperating person two aspects which we will call the coöperative and the subjective aspect, respecti…"

"More than the topography and cartography of organization would be necessary to understand the executive functions; a knowledge of the kinds and qualities of the forces at work and the manner of their …"

"At a crisis in my youth he taught me the wisdom of choice: To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been."

"Planning is one of the many catchwords whose present popularity is roughly proportionate to the obscurity of its definition."

"An organization can secure the efforts necessary to its existence, then, either by the objective inducements it provides or by changing states of mind. It seems to me improbable that any organization …"

"When a specific desired end is attained we shall say that the action is "effective." When the unsought consequences of the action are more important than the attainment of the desired end and are diss…"

"It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning."